The one thing in life that almost everyone has is an opinion on,is the correct way to drive a car. In my mind, I have my own personal philosophy on driving that I live by. Many might say that my philosophy on driving is rather harsh and mostly self centered. I say fuck the speed limit, fuck the police, and fuck you if you’re in front of me driving slow. As the great lyricist Ludacris put it, “move bitch, get out the way”. I feel that slow drivers are holding me up, therefore inconveniencing me, therefore they’re being rude. I could go on and on about the rest of my own personal driving philosophy, but Dr. Jim Keller probably wouldn’t like that. Instead I will talk about what some of the great philosophers in history would think about driving.
Let's start at the beginning with Socrates. Now we all know that Socrates lived well before there
were any cars driving around. I doubt Socrates would even have driven a car. He probably would have made Plato drive him around. Other people on the road would probably annoy him more than they annoy me. He would also probably be trying to teach people how to drive all the time, being very critical the whole time he was doing it.
Let's talk about Jesus driving around in ancient Jerusalem. He'd probably never cut anyone off, because he himself wouldn't want to be cut off. Jesus would probably drive slow so that all his followers could follow as well. Maybe he'd drive a big minivan so it could hold all his disciples. Jesus was all about "love thy neighbor", so maybe he would have to keep stopping to pick up hitchhikers. He'd always do the right thing, like using his blinkers and diving the speed limit.
Nietzsche would have two separate highways for drivers. One for the slave mentality drivers and the one for the master mentality drivers. There is no way they could share the same highway together, as the two would have completely different ways of looking at driving. The slave drivers would all drive the speed limit and follow the trafic laws of the day.The master drivers would all be speeding around in their fast cars with no rules or laws to follow in existence. The two couldn't share the same road because the master drivers would probably ram the slave drivers off the road. It would probably get very chaotic.
Bentham would probably drive in such a way as to make the most people the happiest most of the time. I would imagine he would have to go with the flow of traffic. I also image his driving style would depend on the other drivers around him. Maybe he would have to get most of the drivers around his area to take a survey, so he could find out what would make the most of them the happiest. I'm guessing he would most likely get stuck driving the speed limit and obeying the traffic laws.
Descartes probably wouldn't like driving, because he couldn't be sure if the car or the road was real. He would probably be thinking the whole time that he was about to crash because the road that might not be real could abruptly end, causing his mind to come to an untimely death. Maybe he might look at driving in a different light though. Maybe he might think that since the car and road aren't real, and they're just in his mind, that he could treat driving like he was in a video game of sorts. That crashing wouldn't hurt or effect him since the whole scenario was all in his mind.
So as you can see, many of the different philosophers would have different views on the correct way to drive a car. It would be kind of funny to watch some of them even try to drive a modern car. They would probably love it. Driving around might have actually changed some the arm chair type philosophers opinions entirely. I'd like to see Jesus' reaction to being stuck in traffic, or Decartes reaction to the "make believe" car and road. I'd be willing to bet that if cars were around when all these philosophers were alive, some of them would have a totally different view of the world.
Philosophy and Driving
By Kyle Harris
The one thing in life that almost everyone has is an opinion on,is the correct way to drive a car. In my mind, I have my own personal philosophy on driving that I live by. Many might say that my philosophy on driving is rather harsh and mostly self centered. I say fuck the speed limit, fuck the police, and fuck you if you’re in front of me driving slow.
As the great lyricist Ludacris put it, “move bitch, get out the way”. I feel that slow drivers are holding me up, therefore inconveniencing me, therefore they’re being rude. I could go on and on about the rest of my own personal driving philosophy, but Dr. Jim Keller probably wouldn’t like that. Instead I will talk about what some of the great philosophers in history would think about driving.
Let's start at the beginning with Socrates. Now we all know that Socrates lived well before there
were any cars driving around. I doubt Socrates would even have driven a car. He probably would have made Plato drive him around. Other people on the road would probably annoy him more than they annoy me. He would also probably be trying to teach people how to drive all the time, being very critical the whole time he was doing it.
Let's talk about Jesus driving around in ancient Jerusalem. He'd probably never cut anyone off, because he himself wouldn't want to be cut off.
Jesus would probably drive slow so that all his followers could follow as well. Maybe he'd drive a big minivan so it could hold all his disciples. Jesus was all about "love thy neighbor", so maybe he would have to keep stopping to pick up hitchhikers. He'd always do the right thing, like using his blinkers and diving the speed limit.
Nietzsche would have two separate highways for drivers. One for the slave mentality drivers and the one for the master mentality drivers. There is no way they could share the same highway together, as the two would have completely different ways of looking at driving. The slave drivers would all drive the speed limit and follow the trafic laws of the day.
The master drivers would all be speeding around in their fast cars with no rules or laws to follow in existence. The two couldn't share the same road because the master drivers would probably ram the slave drivers off the road. It would probably get very chaotic.
Bentham would probably drive in such a way as to make the most people the happiest most of the time. I would imagine he would have to go with the flow of traffic.
I also image his driving style would depend on the other drivers around him. Maybe he would have to get most of the drivers around his area to take a survey, so he could find out what would make the most of them the happiest. I'm guessing he would most likely get stuck driving the speed limit and obeying the traffic laws.
Descartes probably wouldn't like driving, because he couldn't be sure if the car or the road was real.
He would probably be thinking the whole time that he was about to crash because the road that might not be real could abruptly end, causing his mind to come to an untimely death. Maybe he might look at driving in a different light though. Maybe he might think that since the car and road aren't real, and they're just in his mind, that he could treat driving like he was in a video game of sorts. That crashing wouldn't hurt or effect him since the whole scenario was all in his mind.
So as you can see, many of the different philosophers would have different views on the correct way to drive a car. It would be kind of funny to watch some of them even try to drive a modern car. They would probably love it. Driving around might have actually changed some the arm chair type philosophers opinions entirely. I'd like to see Jesus' reaction to being stuck in traffic, or Decartes reaction to the "make believe" car and road. I'd be willing to bet that if cars were around when all these philosophers were alive, some of them would have a totally different view of the world.